Health Occupations TEACHER

Stokes County Schools•Danbury, NC

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Health Occupations Teacher is responsible for planning, organizing, and presenting instruction and instructional environments that help students learn subject matter and skills contributing to their educational and social development. This role involves managing instructional time, student behavior, and providing effective instruction and feedback. The teacher will also monitor student performance, facilitate instruction aligned with school and system goals, and interact effectively with students, colleagues, parents, and the community. Additionally, the teacher will perform non-instructional duties and adhere to established laws and policies, while also engaging in professional development.

Requirements

Degree in education or a related area qualifying for licensure as a teacher by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
Ability to use a variety of equipment and classroom tools such as computers, copiers, typewriters, calculators, pencils, scissors, and equipment for children with special needs.
Ability to exert a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
Physical requirements consistent with Light Work due to amount of time spent standing and/or walking.
Data Conception: Ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics of data, people or things.
Interpersonal Communication: Ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information, including receiving instructions, assignments and/or directions from superiors.
Language Ability: Ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, handbooks, forms, lists, etc. Ability to prepare correspondence, simple reports, forms, instructional materials, etc., using a prescribed format.
Intelligence: Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; interpret extensive technical instructions; and deal with abstract and concrete variables.
Verbal Aptitude: Ability to record and deliver information, explain procedures, and follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a variety of technical or professional languages including medical, legal and counseling terminology.
Numerical Aptitude: Ability to utilize mathematical formulas; add, subtract, multiply, and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and apply principles of descriptive statistics, statistical inference and statistical theory.
Form/Spatial Aptitude: Ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.
Motor Coordination: Ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.
Manual Dexterity: Ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
Color Discrimination: Ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color.
Interpersonal Temperament: Ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
Physical Communication: Ability to talk and hear. Must be able to communicate via telephone.
Ability to constantly monitor the safety and well-being of students, particularly when student is participating in an inclusive activity.
Ability to motivate students.
Ability to maintain a clean and orderly environment.
Ability to perform general clerical duties.
Ability to maintain order and discipline in a classroom.
Ability to operate common office machines.
Ability to maintain basic files and records.
Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work assignments.

Responsibilities

Management of Instructional Time: Ensure materials, supplies, and equipment are ready, start lessons quickly, get students on task, and maintain high student time-on-task.
Management of Student Behavior: Establish and enforce rules and procedures for routine matters, student participation, movement, and monitor/address inappropriate behavior promptly and consistently.
Instructional Presentation: Begin lessons with a review, introduce objectives, speak fluently and precisely, use understandable concepts and language, provide relevant examples, assign tasks with a high success rate, ask appropriate questions, maintain a brisk pace, make efficient transitions, clarify assignments, and summarize key points.
Instructional Monitoring of Student Performance: Maintain clear work standards and due dates, circulate to check performance, use work products to check progress, and pose questions clearly.
Instructional Feedback: Provide feedback on in-class work to encourage growth, regularly provide prompt feedback on out-of-class work, affirm correct responses, and provide sustaining feedback after incorrect responses.
Facilitating Instruction: Maintain an instructional plan compatible with school and system curricular goals, use diagnostic information to revise objectives/tasks, maintain accurate student performance records, align objectives, strategies, assessment, and student needs, and utilize available resources.
Interacting Within the Educational Environment: Treat all students fairly and equitably, and interact effectively with students, co-workers, parents, and the community.
Performing Non-Instructional Duties: Carry out assigned non-instructional duties, adhere to laws, policies, and regulations, and follow a plan for professional development.
Perform other related work as required.